Tag Archives: Labour

OTTAWA - Employer groups say Ottawa's proposed labour law changes are encouraging but some want the Liberal government to go even further to ensure industrial peace. Unions are already describing the ...

OTTAWA - Canadians overwhelmingly support Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union, a new poll suggests - even though the details of that arrangement haven't been finalized. The onlin...

OTTAWA - The federal government will not reverse a decision to close several agricultural research facilities across the country, a move the opposition Conservatives are calling a threat to Canada's f...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Avi Lewis said the federal government is defying its own labour laws after the head of the Bank of Canada admitted to using replacement workers during a strike involving security o...

TORONTO - Members of Canada's business community at a technology conference Wednesday called on institutional investors to punch up the patriotism in their portfolios. As the trade war with the U.S. r...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada again Wednesday, this time to claim that Canada is "destroying itself" by allowing millions of people into the country "essentially unchecked an...

OTTAWA - Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors. Hajdu ...

Business groups are applauding new federal legislation that aims to speed up major projects, saying it includes measures they have long been urging Ottawa to take to boost Canada's competitive stature...

MONTREAL - A new report says retirees who have accumulated little net worth are at increased risk of poor health. A Quebec-based research group that studies inequality released the report on Tuesday. ...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it's "disingenuous" for the government not to use the word privatization to describe its plan to have investors take over operations of Canada's four biggest airport...